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 Andrew Pemberton is Managing Director of Croydon based Human Focus Return To Work, a vocational rehabilitation company he helped form in 1999 as a joint venture with one of Holland largest worker reintegration providers. Since then the company has gone on to become a prime contractor with the DWP and the HSE in the provision of workplace health, safety and rehabilitation services as well as a leading provider of vocational rehabilitation and case management services to the Insurance market. Since joining the Parabis Group in 2006, Human Focus has continued to expand its range of services, which includes a number of innovative internet based rehabilitation solutions. |
 The Business Development Manager for AIG Medical & Rehabilitation Ltd. His background is in vocational consultancy for disabled people and has managed a Supported Employment team for social services in the past. He has extensive experience of working with people with a range of disabilities in employment settings and assisting employers to accommodate employees with disabilities. |
 Dr Bonikowski is founder and chief executive of Kynixa and honorary senior lecturer in Rehabilitation Medicine at University College London. He has worked as a consultant in rehabilitation medicine and a general practitioner in the NHS and also as a chartered mechanical engineer in industry. His particular clinical experience in rehabilitation includes the management of acquired brain injury, spinal cord injury, multiple orthopaedic trauma, chronic pain, peripheral nerve injury and amputation. Between 1996 and 1998 he established an NHS community neurological rehabilitation service specialising in chronic conditions such as stroke, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease, and from 1994 to 1996 he ran an NHS lower limb amputee rehabilitation service. |
 Elaine joined Weightmans in 1989, qualified in 1994, and has been a Partner since 2001. She specialises in Large Loss and Technical Claims and has been handling a full caseload of exclusively Large Loss work since 2003. Elaine has been involved in severe brain injury cases, paraplegia and tetraplegia cases, amputations and other severe limb injury cases. She has vast experience of dealing with all the issues that may arise, including care, statutory funding, rehabilitation and accommodation. |
 Gail has 33 years of front-line, management and project experience in both the public and private healthcare and vocational rehabilitation sector. She is a lead in KMG Health Partners, and is project managing the firm's £5.2m European Social Fund programme in Wales, which focuses on job retention for those with mental health issues. As well as consulting work for the DWP and Department of Constitutional Affairs, Gail is a past president of both the Canadian Association of Rehabilitation Professionals and the Canadian Association for Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment. She is currently vice chair of the Vocational Rehabilitation Association and chair of their Standards Task Group. She is a member of the Case Management Society of the UK. Gail is a Registered Rehabilitation Professional, a Certified Rehabilitation Counsellor and a Diplomate and Analyst with the American Board of Disability Analysts. She is also recognized in the "Who's Who of Canadian Women" and the "Who's Who of International Entrepreneurs". |
 Jan Harrison is a recent past director of CMSUK. She chairs the Standards and Ethics group which produced the CMSUK Standards of Practice, and Guidelines. She has a Master’s degree in Rehabilitation and as an OT worked in the NHS (mainly at the National Hospital for Neurology) and abroad. She is director of a consultancy with 50 associates covering rehabilitation, case management, expert witness work, and training. She was a member of the Council of Occupational Therapists, founded the National Association of Neurological Occupational Therapists and is recent past Chair of the OTs in Independent Practice group. |
 David Hunt is a partner with Beachcroft LLP, having first joined the firm in 1965. He is also Chairman of Beachcroft Regulatory Consulting. He has been in the House of Lords for ten years, having previously been Member of Parliament for Wirral for 21 years. He was a Minister for 16 years, holding Cabinet posts as Secretary of State for Wales, Secretary of State for Employment, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He was the author of the new clause 2 in the Compensation Act 2006, and has always promoted rehabilitation. He is President of the Case Management Society UK, and President of the All Party Group on Occupational Safety and Health. |
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Manda Holmshaw Manda Holmshaw is a British Psychological Society Chartered Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has worked in both the NHS and private health care. Her interest in trauma and its consequences originated from working in South Africa at a Medical University as a Senior Lecturer/Clinical Psychologist and then acting as that country's first National HIV/AIDS Prevention Coordinator, between 1991-1994. She has extensive experience in the assessment and treatment of PTSD, anxiety, depression and stress related disorders as well as in preparing legal reports for the Courts, especially after traumatic road, train and plane accidents and serious physical illness. She is the current President of the EMDR Association UK and Ireland and a member of the Training and Accreditation and Membership Committee of that organisation. She is an EMDRIA approved EMDR Consultant and Facilitator and was trained by Francine Shapiro. Manda also holds a post-graduate diploma in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy from Kings College London and has completed a course at the Tavistock Clinic in London in Group Relations Theory. Manda has published on both trauma and AIDS. |
 Dr Martin Strudley was appointed Director Rehabilitation Norwich Union Occupational health in October 2006, after their acquisition of Rehabilitation UK . He is an Associate Specialist in Rheumatology and Rehabilitation for the Ministry of Defence medical services and works part-time at the national rehabilitation centre based in Headley Court. He was co-founder of Rehabilitation UK, which provided evidence based rehabilitation for musculoskeletal and psychological injuries. |
 Melanie is the Managing Director of AIG Medical & Rehabilitation Ltd (AIG MR), covering a portfolio of healthcare business and staff across the UK and Ireland. Melanie is a senior healthcare professional with extensive experience in both the NHS and the private sector. Prior to commencing as the MD of AIG MR she held senior general management positions at London Teaching Hospitals. As MD of AIGMR Melanie has developed a Masters Programme with the University of Brighton in Case Management for Health and Employment, winning an award at the Rehabilitation First Awards in 2005. She also led AIGMR to win of Rehabilitation Provider of the Year 2006. |
 Morag has worked for Norwich Union for more than 20years with experience of handling all levels of bodily injury claim. Her current role involves determining Norwich Union's strategy and delivery of rehabilitation in the claims handling process. Morag is a member of the Rehabilitation Working-Party of the Association of British Insurers/International Underwriting Association. |
 Rosie has worked as the Rehabilitation Manager for QBE Insurance Europe (QIE) Ltd for over 5 years, working alongside policyholders, underwriting and claim staff to initiate the concept of rehabilitation within Employers and Motor Liability. Prior to joining QIE, Rosie was a manager of a rehabilitation case management company, a role in which she also practised as a clinical case manager. Both as a Registered Nurse and District Nurse, Rosie specialised in the rehabilitation of amputees both in the acute and community sectors. Throughout her career, Rosie has published numerous articles in the nursing media, and has a background in medical journalism, having worked with the ‘Nursing Standard’. Rosie is an active member of the joint Association of British Insurers and International Underwriting Association Rehabilitation Working Party and is the current Chairperson of the Case Management Society of the UK (CMSUK). |
 Spencer is the manager of the Medical Management Centre within Zurich. He qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1993 and achieved a Masters Degree in Occupational Health, Safety and the Environment in 2000. Spencer worked in a variety of clinical settings within the NHS before specialising in Occupational Health in 1996, gaining experience in the motor, brewing and chemical production industries. He started working for Zurich in 1999 and has been closely involved with rehabilitation ever since. Spencer's day to day activities include the running of the Medical Management Team, developing processes for the Zurich claims handlers to access rehabilitation, supplier management and case managing injured parties back to full health and employment. |
 As Claims Technical Director at R&SA, Steve controls claims spend, management philosophies and strategies for all classes of business as well as overseeing specialist claims units. Steve joined R&SA from Capita in 2004, bringing with him broad experience drawn from directing change and frontline operations. Prior to that, Steve was Head of Claims for the AMP Group in the UK. |
